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On Saturday afternoon, Armand sent m text A local television station sells time slots for programs
messages each hour for 5 hours, and Tyrone sent p in 30-minute intervals. If the station operates
text messages each hour for 4 hours. Which of the 24 hours per day, every day of the week, what is the
following represents the total number of messages total number of 30-minute time slots the station can
sent by Armand and Tyrone on Saturday afternoon? sell for Tuesday and Wednesday?
A) 9mp
B) 20mp
C) 5m + 4p
D) 4m + 5p

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1 decagram = 10 grams
A musician has a new song available for
1,000 milligrams = 1 gram
downloading or streaming. The musician earns
$0.09 each time the song is downloaded and $0.002
A hospital stores one type of medicine in 2-decagram each time the song is streamed. Which of the
containers. Based on the information given in the following expressions represents the amount, in
box above, how many 1-milligram doses are there in dollars, that the musician earns if the song is
one 2-decagram container? downloaded d times and streamed s times?
A) 0.002 A) 0.002d + 0.09s
B) 200 B) 0.002d − 0.09s
C) 2,000
C) 0.09d + 0.002s
D) 20,000
D) 0.09d − 0.002s
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Wyatt can husk at least 12 dozen ears of corn per
hour and at most 18 dozen ears of corn per hour. A quality control manager at a factory selects
Based on this information, what is a possible amount 7 lightbulbs at random for inspection out of every
of time, in hours, that it could take Wyatt to husk 400 lightbulbs produced. At this rate, how many
72 dozen ears of corn? lightbulbs will be inspected if the factory produces
20,000 lightbulbs?
A) 300
B) 350
C) 400
D) 450
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The distance traveled by Earth in one orbit around A painter will paint n walls with the same size and
the Sun is about 580,000,000 miles. Earth makes shape in a building using a specific brand of paint.
one complete orbit around the Sun in one year. Of The painter’s fee can be calculated by the expression
the following, which is closest to the average speed of nKAh, where n is the number of walls, K is a
Earth, in miles per hour, as it orbits the Sun?
constant with units of dollars per square foot, A is
A) 66,000 the length of each wall in feet, and h is the height of
B) 93,000 each wall in feet. If the customer asks the painter to
C) 210,000 use a more expensive brand of paint, which of the
factors in the expression would change?
D) 420,000
A) h
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B) A
Nate walks 25 meters in 13.7 seconds. If he walks at
this same rate, which of the following is closest to the C) K
distance he will walk in 4 minutes? D) n
A) 150 meters 11
B) 450 meters
Number of hours Tony plans to read the
C) 700 meters novel per day 3
D) 1,400 meters Number of parts in the novel 8
Number of chapters in the novel 239
9 Number of words Tony reads per minute 250
Number of pages in the novel 1,078
Graphene, which is used in the manufacture of Number of words in the novel 349,168

integrated circuits, is so thin that a sheet weighing Tony is planning to read a novel. The table above
shows information about the novel, Tony’s reading
one ounce can cover up to 7 football fields. If a speed, and the amount of time he plans to spend
1 reading the novel each day. If Tony reads at the rates
football field has an area of approximately 1 acres, given in the table, which of the following is closest to
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the number of days it would take Tony to read the
about how many acres could 48 ounces of graphene entire novel?

cover? A) 6
B) 8
A) 250
C) 23
B) 350
D) 324
C) 450
D) 1,350
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The monthly membership fee for an online television If a 3-pound pizza is sliced in half and each half is
and movie service is $9.80. The cost of viewing sliced into thirds, what is the weight, in ounces, of
television shows online is included in the each of the slices? (1 pound = 16 ounces)
membership fee, but there is an additional fee
of $1.50 to rent each movie online. For one month, A) 4
Jill’s membership and movie rental fees were $12.80. B) 6
How many movies did Jill rent online that month? C) 8
A) 1 D) 16
B) 2
16
C) 3
D) 4 A partially filled pool contains 600 gallons of water.
A hose is turned on, and water flows into the pool at
the rate of 8 gallons per minute. How many gallons
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of water will be in the pool after 70 minutes?
One of the requirements for becoming a court
reporter is the ability to type 225 words per minute.
Donald can currently type 180 words per minute,
and believes that with practice he can increase his
typing speed by 5 words per minute each month.
Which of the following represents the number of
words per minute that Donald believes he will be able
to type m months from now?
A) 5 + 180m
B) 225 + 5m
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C) 180 + 5m
The pes, a Roman measure of length, is
D) 180 − 5m
approximately equal to 11.65 inches. It is also
equivalent to 16 smaller Roman units called digits.
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The density of an object is equal to the mass of the equivalent to how many feet, to the nearest
object divided by the volume of the object. What is hundredth? (12 inches = 1 foot)
the volume, in milliliters, of an object with a mass of
24 grams and a density of 3 grams per milliliter?
A) 0.125
B) 8
C) 21
D) 72
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To make a bakery’s signature chocolate muffins, a Horsepower and watts are units of measure of
baker needs 2.5 ounces of chocolate for each muffin. power. They are directly proportional such that
How many pounds of chocolate are needed to make 5 horsepower is equal to 3730 watts. How much
48 signature chocolate muffins? power, in watts, is equal to 2 horsepower?
(1 pound = 16 ounces)
A) 7.5
B) 10
C) 50.5
D) 120

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The weight of an object on Venus is approximately

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of its weight on Earth. The weight of an object
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23 The painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
on Jupiter is approximately of its weight on
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Earth. If an object weighs 100 pounds on Earth, is rectangular in shape with height 29 inches and

approximately how many more pounds does it width 36.25 inches. If a reproduction was made
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weigh on Jupiter than it weighs on Venus? where each dimension is the corresponding
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A) 90 original dimension, what is the height of the
B) 111
reproduction, in inches?
C) 140
D) 230

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In the 1908 Olympic Games, the Olympic marathon
was lengthened from 40 kilometers to approximately
42 kilometers. Of the following, which is closest to
the increase in the distance of the Olympic
marathon, in miles? (1 mile is approximately
1.6 kilometers.)
A) 1.00
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B) 1.25
C) 1.50 The total area of a coastal city is 92.1 square miles, of
which 11.3 square miles is water. If the city had a
D) 1.75 population of 621,000 people in the year 2010, which
of the following is closest to the population density,
in people per square mile of land area, of the city at
that time?
A) 6,740
B) 7,690
C) 55,000
D) 76,000
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Questions 24 and 25 refer to the following 26
information.
A gear ratio r:s is the ratio of the number of teeth of
two connected gears. The ratio of the number of
Ms. Simon’s Workday Morning Drive
revolutions per minute (rpm) of two gear wheels is
Average driving s:r. In the diagram below, Gear A is turned by a
Segment of Distance speed with no motor. The turning of Gear A causes Gears B and C
drive (miles) traffic delay to turn as well.
(mph)
From home to
freeway 0.6 25
entrance
From freeway
entrance to 15.4 50
freeway exit B C
A
From freeway
exit to 1.4 35
workplace Gear C
Gear A
10 teeth
20 teeth
Ms. Simon drives her car from her home to her
workplace every workday morning. The table above
shows the distance, in miles, and her average driving Gear B
60 teeth
speed, in miles per hour (mph), when there is no traffic
delay, for each segment of her drive. If Gear A is rotated by the motor at a rate of 100 rpm,
what is the number of revolutions per minute for
24 Gear C?
One morning, Ms. Simon drove directly from her
A) 50
home to her workplace in 24 minutes. What was her
average speed, in miles per hour, during her drive B) 110
that morning? C) 200
D) 1,000

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A certain package requires 3 centimeters of tape to be
closed securely. What is the maximum number of
packages of this type that can be secured with
6 meters of tape? (1 meter = 100 cm)
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If Ms. Simon starts her drive at 6:30 a.m., she can A) 100
drive at her average driving speed with no traffic B) 150
delay for each segment of the drive. If she starts her C) 200
drive at 7:00 a.m., the travel time from the freeway
entrance to the freeway exit increases by 33% due to D) 300
slower traffic, but the travel time for each of the other
two segments of her drive does not change. Based on
the table, how many more minutes does Ms. Simon
take to arrive at her workplace if she starts her drive
at 7:00 a.m. than if she starts her drive at 6:30 a.m.?
(Round your answer to the nearest minute.)
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In 1854, during the California gold rush, each ounce In a random sample of 200 cars of a particular model,
of gold was worth $20, and the largest known mass of 3 have a manufacturing defect. At this rate, how
gold found in California was worth $62,400 in that many of 10,000 cars of the same model will have a
year. What was the weight, in pounds, of this mass of manufacturing defect?
gold? (16 ounces = 1 pound)
A) 150
B) 200
C) 250
D) 300

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A granite block in the shape of a right rectangular
prism has dimensions 30 centimeters by
40 centimeters by 50 centimeters. The block has a
density of 2.8 grams per cubic centimeter. What is
the mass of the block, in grams? (Density is mass
29 per unit volume.)
A) 336
If 50 one-cent coins were stacked on top of
B) 3,360
each other in a column, the column would be C) 16,800
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approximately 3 inches tall. At this rate, which of
8
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the following is closest to the number of one-cent
There are two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of
coins it would take to make an 8-inch-tall column? oxygen in one molecule of water. How many atoms
of hydrogen are there in 51 molecules of water?
A) 75
B) 100
C) 200
D) 390

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One pound of grapes costs $2. At this rate, how many
dollars will c pounds of grapes cost? 34
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere set off on his
A) 2c midnight ride from Charlestown to Lexington. If he
had ridden straight to Lexington without stopping,
he would have traveled 11 miles in 26 minutes. In
B) 2 + c
such a ride, what would the average speed of his
horse have been, to the nearest tenth of a mile
2 per hour?
C)
c
c
D)
2
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Two units of length used in ancient Egypt were
cubits and palms, where 1 cubit is equivalent to The raw score on a certain standardized test is
7 palms. The Great Sphinx statue in Giza is
1
approximately 140 cubits long. Which of the determined by subtracting of the number of
following best approximates the length, in palms, of 4
the Great Sphinx statue? incorrect answers from the number of correct
A) 0.05
answers. If a student answered 30 questions and
B) 20
C) 140 received a raw score of 20, how many questions did
D) 980
the student answer incorrectly?
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A certain homeowner uses a gas edger to clean up
his lawn every time he mows. If the edger uses 160
milliliters of fuel each time, what is the maximum
number of times the homeowner can edge his lawn
with 8 liters of fuel? (1 liter = 1,000 milliliters) 38
A) 5 One of the first diets to limit the intake of
B) 50 carbohydrates was prescribed by Dr. William Harvey
in 1862. This diet consisted of three meals a day
C) 100
containing equal amounts of protein per meal. If
D) 1,000 protein contains 4 dietary calories per gram, and the
diet consisted of 672 dietary calories of protein per
meal, how much protein, to the nearest ounce, was in
each meal? (1 ounce is approximately 28 grams.)

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Jeanne babysits Chuy one day each week. Jeanne
charges a $20 fee for the day, plus $5.50 for every 30
minutes of babysitting. How much has Jeanne earned
after three hours of babysitting? (Disregard the $ sign
when gridding your answer.)

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Biologists found a new species of pale shrimp at the
Washington High School randomly selected world’s deepest undersea vent, the Beebe Vent Field.
The vent is 3.1 miles below the sea’s surface.
freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students Approximately how many kilometers below the sea’s
surface is the vent? (1 kilometer ≈ 0.6214 miles)
for a survey about potential changes to next year’s
A) 2
1
schedule. Of students selected for the survey, were B) 3
4
1 C) 4
freshmen and were sophomores. Half of the
3 D) 5
remaining selected students were juniors. If
Questions 43 and 44 refer to the following
336 students were selected for the survey, how many information.

were seniors? The peregrine falcon can reach speeds of up to 200 miles
per hour while diving to catch prey, making it the fastest
A) 240 animal on the planet when in a dive.
B) 140
C) 120
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D) 70
What is a peregrine falcon’s maximum speed while
41 diving to catch prey, in feet per second? (Round
your answer to the nearest whole number.
Plant A is currently 20 centimeters tall, and Plant B 1 mile = 5280 feet)
is currently 12 centimeters tall. The ratio of the
heights of Plant A to Plant B is equal to the ratio of
the heights of Plant C to Plant D. If Plant C is
54 centimeters tall, what is the height of Plant D, in
centimeters?
A) 32.4
B) 44.0
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C) 62.0
D) 90.0 If a peregrine falcon dove at its maximum speed for
half a mile to catch prey, how many seconds would
the dive take? (Round your answer to the nearest
second.)

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Priya is planning to send her favorite dry rub recipe Questions 46 and 47 refer to the following
to a friend who lives in France. Before sending information.
the recipe, Priya wants to convert the American
customary units in the instructions into metric units To leave the Moon’s gravity well, a shuttle must reach
so that her friend will easily be able to understand speeds of 8568 kilometers per hour. This speed is known as
the measurements. If the recipe calls for a ratio of escape velocity because, if not reached, the shuttle would
four ounces of paprika to every seven ounces of chili not be able to escape the Moon’s gravity and return to
powder, and if Priya’s friend is planning to make a Earth.
large batch of dry rub with 91 total ounces of chili
powder, approximately how many total grams of
paprika and chili powder will the recipe require?
(1 ounce = 28.3 grams)
A) 4,047 grams
B) 4,521 grams 46
C) 4,925 grams If the space shuttle traveling at escape velocity has
D) 5,149 grams 150 km left before reaching lunar orbit, in
approximately how many seconds will the shuttle
reach orbit? (Round your answer to the nearest
second).

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What is the space shuttle’s escape velocity in meters
per second, rounded to the nearest hundred?
(1 kilometer = 1000 meters)?